100 tongue-twisting food terms

It can be embarrassing to try to order something that you can't pronounce when you're at a restaurant with a table full of people. Who hasn't tripped over gyro or cringed when someone orders an expresso? Here are 100 commonly mispronounced food words with their phonetic spellings and audio pronunciations.

By Compiled by Jennifer McInnis, Cynthia Ramirez and Merrisa Brown

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It can be embarrassing to try to order something that you can't pronounce when you're at a restaurant with a table full of people. Who hasn't tripped over gyro or cringed when someone orders an expresso?

Reading the pronunciation not enough? Click the links on each slide to listen to the correctly pronounced words. French native and certified sommelier Fabien Jacob at Bohanan's Prime Steaks and Seafood sounded out the Italian and French terms, while Express-News researcher Michael Knoop used his decade of experience as a spelling bee announcer to pronounce the rest.

At the risk of receiving an onslaught of more emails than my inbox can handle, "potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto." They all still taste great. less

It can be embarrassing to try to order something that you can't pronounce when you're at a restaurant with a table full of people. Who hasn't tripped over gyro or cringed when someone orders an expresso?